Assigned as the executive officer of the 90th Personnel Services Battalion (PSB) effective 11 November 2003, Major Eric Olson joined the unit already in Iraq. Although its center of mass was at Balad, the battalion had numerous personnel services...

MAJ Andy Nuce served as Alpha Company commander with the 172nd Medical Logistics (MEDLOG) Battalion in Balad, Iraq and as the brigade property book officer (PBO) with the 30th Medical Brigade in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003, and as Alpha Company...

In command of the 7th Transportation Battalion for 11 months in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) II beginning in January 2004, Lieutenant Colonel George Akin was an Active Component commander working under a Reserve Component corps support...

In this April 2014 interview, COL (Ret.) John Hall, US Army, Logistics, discusses his deployment to Iraq as the deputy commander of the 3d Corps Support Command (COSCOM) in 2003 through 2004 in support of the initial invasion during Operation Iraqi...

Major Christopher Hartline deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April 2003 through January 2004 as the commander of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division. They had several...

From April 2003 through April 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Tim Cyprian commanded the 813th Replacement Company - a US Army Reserve unit out of Gordo, Alabama - and was based in country at LSA Anaconda. In this interview, he...

Tasked with contingency airbase defense during his first two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first from August to December 2003 at Tallil Airbase, the second from May to October 2004 at Baghdad International Airport - US Air...

A medical evacuation officer by trade, Major Michael Pouncey was tasked, as an individual augmentee, to fill a medical information manager position - his secondary area of concentration - with the 109th Area Support Medical Battalion, an Army...

MAJ Timothy Diley served as the Battery Commander of 3rd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery in the Sunni Triangle, Iraq during 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this October 2009 interview, MAJ Diley discusses the hardships of this...

MAJ Isabel Geiger served as the commander of a headquarters and headquarters detachment (HHD) of the 181st Transportation Battalion in the 16th Corps Support Group (CSG) during 2003 and 2004 in Balad, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom...

In this two-part interview, Major Scott Kruse discusses his March 2003 to March 2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with 1-4 Aviation Battalion, part of the 4th Infantry Division, during which he served initially as a battalion...

In this second of two interviews, Major Bill Breeze, from the California National Guard (NG), talks about serving as the maintenance officer of the aviation classification repair activity depot in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait from December 2004 through...

From the onset of major combat operations in Iraq through his redeployment in June of 2003, Major John Cochran ran the current operations cell as the 11th Attack Helicopter Regiment's assistant operations officer. In this first of two interviews...